Long time reader, first time poster.
I have about 20-25 sessions under my belt on a LF Rocket Foil, the original low aspect shape. I've been progressing fairly well, have surface and touch-down jibes mostly sorted and working on fully foiling transitions and a little jumping and seemed to run into a frequent issue/challenge. Often on a foiling transition/carve I find the tip of the foil wing pokes through the surface, causes it to ventilate and I come crashing down. No way to save it as it happens so quickly. It's happening to me in messy swell when it's hard to time a carve for a certain point in the wave. I've been fine in flatter conditions, when the margin of error for proper elevation is greater.
For background, I mostly ride on Lake Michigan and on NW-NE conditions the most convenient places for me are totally exposed to maybe an 80 mile fetch, which makes for some sizable (but typically irregular) freshwater swell. I was out last night in 12-14 knots and was battling some messy wind chop on top of 3-4' rollers. I was specifically working on transitions in these conditions and was probably crashing on 3 out of 4, and as best I could tell, because of a ventilating foil. Mid-carve I lose lift and come crashing down, even when I'm being mindful of staying low enough to start the carve. For the first time on a foil, I wasn't really having fun.
So question is, do all foils suffer the same fate when the tip breaches the surface, or is this specific to some shapes? Same thing can happen when I'm healed over hard going up wind. I swear I've seen videos of others riding consistently with one tip poking the surface. Very few other foilers in my area and haven't had a chance to demo any other foils. Is this just something I'll need to work on/suffer through as I progress or are other foils more forgiving of this? Thanks.